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" How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables. "

Michel de Montaigne

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" If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work. "

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" Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout's obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family. "

" When it comes to role models, as a person of faith, I think we all have one perfect role model. And when I'm asked that question, I point to God and to my faith. And that's where I tell my kids to look. "

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

" When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith. "

" Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. "

Soren Kierkegaard

" Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. "

" If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. "

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" Faith is the black person's federal reserve system. "

Hattie McDaniel

" Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse? "

" Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. "

" You approach faith with humility. You can have some idea, but it boils down to do you see religion as a club, or do you see religion as a path? Do you see it as a wall that separates you or do you see it as a bridge that connects you to God and other people? When you see it as a bridge, you aren't so worried about bringing others over to your side. "

" Christians can have doubts and they can have questions, and the unhealthy way to deal with that is to keep them inside where they fester and grow and can undermine our faith. The healthy way to deal with it is to talk about it and be honest about it. "

" I have faith in my imperfections! "

" I never was deeply interested in any object; I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything, but it came at some time - no matter how distant, in some way, in some shape, probably the last I should have devised, it came. And yet, I have always had so little faith. God forgive me. "

Adoniram Judson

" Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith. "

" I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday. "

Francis Collins

" The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. "

" There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder. "

" Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life. "

Jonathan Edwards

" In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an increasing disillusionment about democracy and a lack of faith in democratic institutions. "

" I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it. "

" Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed. "

Bruce Springsteen

" People will make leaps of faith and get excited by your product if you just get it in front of them. "

" I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's appropriate. But freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom from religion. And I think that anything we can do to promote the idea that people should express their faith is a good thing. "

" I know that I had not faith, unless the faith of a devil, the faith of Judas, that speculative, notional, airy shadow, which lives in the head, not in the heart. But what is this to the living, justifying faith, the faith that cleanses from sin? "

" Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. "

Michel de Montaigne

" To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder. "

" If you're not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your 'today.' The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that's yours in Christ. Don't let it go. "